Simplex intercommunication system and a two-way intercommunication system having an electronic trunking scheme

Claim 1

A simplex or two-way intercommunciation system for a large number of subscriber stations, for example, permitting the connection of about 10 to 1000 subscribers, and having an electronic trunking scheme or system of establishing the connections, characterized in that both the transmission of signals and the establishment of connections is effected by the time-division multiplex process, in that all of the subscriber stations are connected to a wiring system for directed information transmission, said wiring system comprising a central synchronizing generator which supplies synchronizing signals for the time division multiplex operation, and in that the signal transmission to the wiring system is digital, the conversion of the analog speech signal into digital signal form and the recovery of the speech signal taking place in the subscriber stations, the conversion of the speech signals into digital signal form being effected according to the delta modulation process, and each subscriber being able only to respond via a time channel fixedly connected thereto, and a local synchronizing generator is provided in each subscriber station, said local synchronizing generator consisting essentially of a phase arrested loop, a meter, the counting capacity of which depends on the maximum number of subscribers and the requisite synchronizing impulses, and at least two digital comparators, the local synchronizing generator being synchronized by the central synchronizing generator and the particular time channel which is fixedly connected to the subscriber stations and the freely selectable time channels of the subscriber stations called being adapted to be determined by the meter and the comparator, and wherein the local synchronizing generator is designed to be used simultaneously for producing the interrogation impulses for the modulation and demodulation stages.